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/** \page libcaca-news Libcaca news
\section news0_99_beta18 Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17 - new "cacaclock" utility - improved FIGlet support - improved Python and Ruby bindings - numerous improvements and bugfixes \section news0_99_beta17 Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16 - new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering - new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting - XCode and Visual Studio build improvements - Unicode support in the X11 driver - triangle texture mapping - improved HTML output - new troff output - improved Ruby and .NET bindings - new comprehensive PHP bindings - new Java bindings - Cocoa driver enhancements - support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts - documentation updates - numerous improvements and bugfixes \section news0_99_beta16 Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15 - many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms \section news0_99_beta15 Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14 - libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity \section news0_99_beta14 Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13 - internal FIGlet font support - use C99 types in public headers - runtime support for output drivers - BBcode export support \section news0_99_beta13 Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12 - device-dependent cursor support - event API rewrite - minor API improvements and extensions - img2txt improvements - Ruby bindings - Massive C# bindings improvements - Python sample code - Visual Studio build solution \section news0_99_beta12 Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11 - support for 90-degree canvas rotation - better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal - the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks - new rotozoom effect in cacademo - Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X - preliminary .NET bindings - many bugfixes and documentation changes \section news0_99_beta11 Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10 - fixed compilation of the C++ bindings - fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size() - implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang - minor bugfixes \section news0_99_beta10 Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9 - new debug mode - blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates - import functions can read streamed data - attribute to colorspace transformations - added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font - many bugfixes and documentation changes \section news0_99_beta9 Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8 - support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes - allow to import and export zero-sized canvases - fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview - fixed buffer overlows in the file importer - big documentation updates \section news0_99_beta8 Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7 - allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins - support for fullwidth Unicode characters - improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate() - minor bugfixes and documentation updates \section news0_99_beta7 Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6 - transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter - optimised triangle fill routine - updated C++ bindings \section news0_99_beta6 Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5 - ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8 - Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set - various memory leaks were fixed \section news0_99_beta5 Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4 - implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color() - handle transparency in the IRC export - new cropping and expanding filters - full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver - portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS - all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo \section news0_99_beta4 Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3 - added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications - fixed manpage generation - minor bugfixes and documentation updates \section news0_99_beta3 Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2 - libcaca functions use errno for error reporting - updated C++ bindings - minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates \section news0_99_beta2 Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1 - ANSI importer - functions use errno for error reporting - updated C++ bindings - .NET bindings - cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor - Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses - built-in fonts work on Win32 \section news0_99_beta1 Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1 - license switched to WTFPL - libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend - Unicode support - TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support - Floyd-Steinberg dithering - gamma correction - export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA... - builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output - various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...) - OpenGL renderer - kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel - cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications - img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility \section news0_9 Changes between 0.8 and 0.9 - fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering - fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers - aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview - minor compilation fixes \section news0_8 Changes between 0.7 and 0.8 - window resizing support - native Win32 port - autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers - support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers - cacaplas, a plasma animation example - cacamoir, a moire circles animation example - MSVC project file \section news0_7 Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 - many bugfixes in the event handling - cacaball, a metaball animation example \section news0_6 Changes between 0.5 and 0.6 - 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine - mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver - X11 is now the preferred driver - improved documentation - minor bugfixes \section news0_5 Changes between 0.4 and 0.5 - palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug - minor compilation fix \section news0_4 Changes between 0.3 and 0.4 - preliminary X11 graphics driver - support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers - honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables - more documentation \section news0_3 Changes between 0.2 and 0.3 - antialiasing support - dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables - alpha channel support in cacaview - BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present - cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire \section news0_2 Changes between 0.1 and 0.2 - rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 - mouse support for ncurses - ncurses is now the preferred backend - arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer - cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca \section news_0_1 New in 0.1 - initial release - slang, ncurses and conio drivers - basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives - colour bitmap blitting */ |